Due to flooding: bar from zoo in the eifel must be shot
The predators temporarily missing from a zoo in the rhineland-palatinate region of the eifel have not escaped from their enclosures after all, except for one, contrary to initial information from the authorities. The mayor of the municipality of arzfeld, andreas kruppert, said on friday that this had not been apparent at first because of the flooding. The bar had been shot on a path in the zoo.
The first report was as follows: two lows, two tigers and a jaguar had escaped on friday. One bar was shot, the other animals are said to have been captured alive.